Being Deaf In America

Overall , being Deaf for a day was long, hard, and frustrating. Being Deaf made the day feel longer because people were staring at me in the hallways, at lunch, in the classroom, and laughing at me. Some kids would even flick the ear muffs, making my ears hurt. Other kids would yell at me trying to get my attention and get all up in my face, which wasn't very fun. I mean most these kids are already mean to me without being Deaf, but they were even worse when I was Deaf. Being Deaf was also hard because I wanted to be involved with some of the discussions going on, but I was unable to communicate with them. Being Deaf was also frustrating because two of my teachers are lecturers, where all they do is lecture for their entire class. This made it very frustrating for

Most of my classmates were very rude and mean to me. They would flick my ear muffs, try to sneak up behind me and scare me, hit me on my arms to get my attention, get all up in my face, laugh at me when I couldn’t understand. The worst thing that classmates did to me happened at lunch. At lunch they were “talking behind my back” while I was sitting right in front of them. Little did they know I could read their lips, and later that day my friend told me what they were saying about me. That really hurt my feelings, but what can you do. On the other hand, however, there were some good responses I had with classmates. For example my friend Nick learned to fingerspell from one of his friends, so when he was in my class and I didn’t understand something, or there was an assignment that was due the next day, he would sign it to me. He was very helpful, and if someone wanted to tell me something he would kind of interpret for me. Nick was not the only kid to help me out though. Some of the people I sat by in classes would write in my notebook what was going on to help me out, but that was actually only one person that did